The Channel Tunnel (; also referred to as the Chunnel ) is a undersea rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.

The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available, for interchange with the Central Line and main lines.

While a number of private railroads exist and provide mostly commuter-type services, the national railway, Ferrovie dello Stato, also provides sophisticated high-speed rail service that joins the major cities of Italy from Naples through northern cities such as Milan and Turin.

Mazar-e Sharif serves as the major trading center in northern Afghanistan, which is the first city to connect itself by rail with a neighboring country.

The country has two major rail lines: one connects Lagos on the Bight of Benin and Nguru in the northern state of Yobe ; the other connects Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta and Maiduguri in the northeastern state of Borno.

The rail network is very dense in western and northern Poland, while eastern part of the country is less developed.

Also of interest is a tunnel connecting the Eveleigh rail yards, on the southern side of the main line, to the northern side of the main line, running beneath Redfern station.

Beyond the road / rail land entrances at the northern edge of the city, transportation within the city remains ( as it was in centuries past ) entirely on water or on foot.

It also led to a flurry of railway construction that had started under Austrian partronage ( Venice – Milan ; Milan – Monza ) that made Milan the rail hub of northern Italy.

Thousands of communities in the northern plains states ( such as Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota ) became railroad ghost towns when a rail line failed to materialize.

The northern one carries rail traffic and the southern one carries road traffic.

The Sweden-to-Germany ferry system is still used to some extent, owing to limited rail capacity, with heavy passenger traffic over the bridges and some single track rail in southern Denmark and northern Germany.

During the mid-to-late 19th century, smallmouth were transplanted via the nation's rail system to lakes and rivers throughout the northern and western United States, as far as California.

The funds subsidize a heavy rail project in northern Virginia, completing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's Metro Silver Line to connect Washington, D. C., and the Washington Dulles International Airport.

Russia wasted little time after the Triple Intervention to move men and materials down into the Liaodong to start building a railroad from both ends — Port Arthur and Harbin, as it already had railway construction in progress across northern Inner Manchuria to shorten the rail route to Russia's sole Pacific Ocean naval base at Sakhalin Island, a port closed by ice four months of each year.

A modern light rail line between the Bartolomé Mitre suburban railway station and Tigre ( Tren de la Costa ) inaugurated in 1996 operates in the northern suburbs.

* Richard Martin Trail — a rail trail in northern part of the county for bicycling, horseback riding, and walking.

The station has been identified as a possible northern terminus for a light rail system in the Bristol area.

It is the longest railway bridge in Europe ( highway / rail bridge Oresund Bridge is longer ): on the northern side, the bridge connects to the Rendsburg Loop to gain height and to allow trains to continue to serve the Rendsburg station.

The Daly City BART station opened on September 11, 1972, providing northern San Mateo County with rail service to downtown San Francisco and other parts of the Bay Area.

Sherman is located at the southern end of the proposed Sherman-Williamsville Trail, a rail trail in northern Sangamon County.

Williamsville is located at the northern end of the proposed Sherman-Williamsville Trail, a rail trail in northern Sangamon County.

Turkey's First Geography Congress in 1941 created two regions to the east of the Gulf of Iskenderun-Black Sea line named the Eastern Anatolia Region and the Southeastern Anatolia Region, the former largely corresponding to the western part of the Armenian Highland, the latter to the northern part of the Mesopotamian plain.

This block of country lies just west of the line of the great East African Trough, the northern continuation of which passes along its eastern escarpment as it runs up to join the Red Sea.

The Madaba Map depiction of 6th-century Jerusalem has the Cardo Maximus, the town ’ s main street, beginning at the northern gate, today's Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls | Damascus Gate, and traversing the city in a straight line from north to south to Nea Church.

The sun's most southerly position, which is attained at the northern hemisphere's winter solstice, is now called the Tropic of Capricorn, a term which also applies to the line on the Earth at which the sun is directly overhead at noon on that solstice.

Although the rest of the northern line is still in place, it is in a state of serious disrepair.

While the Fujiwara fell into disputes among themselves and formed northern and southern factions, the insei system allowed the paternal line of the imperial family to gain influence over the throne.

All other lands east of the Oder – Neisse line were put under Polish administration, with the exception of historic northern East Prussia, which went to the USSR.

Under the protocol signed on 7 May 1832 between Bavaria and the protecting Powers, and basically dealing with the way in which the Regency was to be managed until Otto reached his majority ( while also concluding the second Greek loan, for a sum of £ 2, 400, 000 sterling ), Greece was defined as an independent kingdom, with the Arta-Volos line as its northern frontier.

Until 1963 when the line was closed, Terrier steam locomotives pulled carriages along the Hayling Billy line from Havant station on the mainland to a station which was located at the northern end of Staunton Avenue, passing through Langstone where there was a Halt.

The Kara Sea's northern limit is marked geographically by a line running from Cape Kohlsaat in Graham Bell Island, Franz Josef Land, to Cape Molotov ( Arctic Cape ), the northernmost point of Komsomolets Island in Severnaya Zemlya.

The final of this line, which opened on 18 December 1905, lies within the borders of Lesotho, running from the border bridge on the Mohokare River through the northern industrial district of Maseru to that city's station, the only railway station in the country.

In a historical and political sense, the Main line is referred to as the northern border of Southern Germany, with its predominantly Catholic population.

* 1996 Gangaw – Natchaung 110 · 8 Linked to isolated northern section of Kalay line ; opening ceremony February 6

It rises from less than elevation in the tropical Terai — the northern rim of the Gangetic Plain, beyond the perpetual snow line to some 90 peaks over including Earth's highest Mount Everest or Sagarmatha.

Nigeria's northern end is south of the 15 degrees line at about 14 degrees.

On the surface it appears that Eratosthenes altered the base line to pass through the northern extreme of Celtica.

Roughly, then, the northern highlands are north of the imaginary east-west line ; the Balochistan Plateau is to the west of the imaginary southwest line ; and the Indus Plain lies to the east of that line.

The main system can be traced back to 1891, when the northern line was built between San Juan ( Martín Peña sector ) and the town of Manatí.

Along the center line of the Peninsula is the northern half of the Santa Cruz Mountains, formed by the action of plate tectonics along the San Andreas Fault.